Mediagazer: Netflix streaming speeds on Comcast jump 65 percent after controversial deal (Chris Welch/The Verge)

4:55 PM ET, April 14, 2014

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2014 Winners and Finalists — Winners - Journalism - Public Service The Guardian US The Washington Post Breaking News Reporting Staff of The Boston Globe Investigative Reporting Chris Hamby of The Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC Explanatory Reporting Eli Saslow …

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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations — Pair awarded highest accolade in US journalism, winning Pulitzer prize for public service for stories on NSA surveillance — The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism …

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Guardian to launch robot-generated print edition in the US; limited to 5,000 copies — The Guardian's robot newspaper comes to the U.S. — The Guardian is taking a very modern strategy and applying it to an old-school format. — The U.K. paper only has a digital presence in the U.S. …

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John Cook / The Intercept:

The Intercept will focus on NSA stories until it's fully staffed up — Passover Greetings from the Editor — Hello. My name is John Cook, and as of three weeks ago I became the editor-in-chief of The Intercept. Since then, we haven't published much material on the site, and that's been on purpose.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

UPDATED: Relativity Offers Up to $1.1 Billion for Maker Studios, In Move to Outflank Disney — Maker Studios is in the center of a bidding war: Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media has staged a surprise late-hour plan to acquire the YouTube multichannel network operator for up to $925 million …

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David Carr / New York Times:

Content creators are skeptical of Yahoo's plans to produce high-quality television — Yahoo Rolls the Dice on TV — Yahoo, a company that seems like a permanent adolescent in search of an identity, is about to try a new persona: high-quality television programmer.

Ben Cardew / Guardian:

Vox.com's Melissa Bell: ‘This is a chance to do journalism differently’ — The co-founder of news website Vox.com on how it provides the information to help readers stay in touch with news cycle — It's not often that a journalist will admit to falling off the news cycle.

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Netflix streaming speeds on Comcast jump 65 percent after controversial deal — Netflix customers on Comcast are already seeing the benefits of a controversial pact between the streaming service and cable provider. Comcast jumped five spots in Netflix's ranking of ISP performance for the month of March.

Discussion: Gigaom, Ars Technica, Quartz, multichannel.com and PandoDaily

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

YouTube using traditional advertising to promote star content creators — Exclusive Interview: Susan Wojcicki's Plan to Make YouTube ‘Stars’ Real-Life Famous — And Guaranteeing Audiences In Bid to Pry More TV Dollars Away In the Upfront — Festival — Internet Week New York

Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:

16 women whose digital startups deserve Vox-level plaudits — A look at the media entrepreneurs who aren't grabbing headlines — Even casual consumers of media news have heard of Ezra Klein and Nate Silver, two names that are now synonymous with the future of journalism.

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Mindy McAdams / Medium:

(Re)defining multimedia journalism — New storytelling forms inspire us — There's no consensus among journalists about what the term multimedia means, or even whether to use it anymore. — The multimedia skills listed in a job advertisement might span a range of specialties from web developer to videographer.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Lionsgate Strikes Content Pact with RocketJump, YouTube Studio Behind ‘Video Game High School’ — Lionsgate is the latest Hollywood studio jumping into the YouTube multichannel network space, announcing a pact to with RocketJump Studios, the MCN whose biggest hit is the “Video Game High School” series.

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